Senior Staff Product Designer, Gusto Pro

At Gusto, were on a mission to grow the small business economy. We handle the hard stuff—like payroll, health insurance, 401(k)s, and HR—so owners can focus on their craft and customers. With teams in Denver, San Francisco, and New York, we’re proud to support more than 400,000 small businesses across the country, and we’re building a workplace that represents and celebrates the customers we serve. Learn more about our Total Rewards philosophy .

About the team

Our Gusto Pro team is dedicated to serving our accountant customers who rely on Gusto to support their small business clients with payroll, taxes, hiring, and more. Our mission is to help accountants be incredible partners to their clients through the support and strategic guidance they provide. By creating a platform that empowers accountants, we enable the success and growth of their firms.

About the opportunity :

As a Senior Staff Product Designer on the Gusto Pro team, you’ll lead the experience direction for a product area within Gusto Pro. You’ll be involved in the entire product development process from research to creating a vision to iterating on experiences for launch. As a leader on the cross-functional team, you’ll have a lot of opportunity to influence strategy at the team and project level.

Here’s what you’ll do day-to-day

Work with the other members of your leadership team to define a long-term UX vision for your product area and how it fits into Gusto Pro’s broader vision.

Co-lead the definition of product strategy, roadmap, team OKRs, and project direction.

Work with cross-functional partners in UX Research, Data Science, and Customer Support to understand customer problems and identify key opportunities for the customer and our business.

Ship both net new and iterative projects that deliver consistent value to our customers.

Contribute to Gusto’s product design leadership community by sharing your skills and experience.

Champion our design system and platform standards, and help evolve them through your team’s work.

Here’s what were looking for :

8+ years of software product design experience, preferably in B2B SaaS. Bonus if you’ve worked in domains related to Accounting like Finance, Payroll, and Benefits.

Builder mindset : You have demonstrated experience as an individual contributor design leader at the product or group level, and can articulate how you’ve set direction and built alignment through your design work.

Comfort with complexity : You’ve led the design of approachable, guiding products in complex domains.

Product acumen : This role will contribute directly to business and product strategy. You should be comfortable working with executive stakeholders, and be able to demonstrate how you’ve shaped business decisions.

High quality bar : This role will be a tireless advocate for our customers’ experience with Gusto. You should be able to demonstrate how you’ve maintained design quality while shipping iteratively to deliver customer value early and often.

Experience with or curiosity about designing for AI

At Gusto, we strive to provide rewards that empower employees to achieve their financial and personal goals. We offer competitive compensation packages with a strong emphasis on equity based compensation (ownership in Gusto). To learn more about Gusto’s compensation philosophy and benefits offerings please view our Total Rewards Approach page.

Our cash compensation range for this role is $172,000 / yr to $215,000 / yr in Denver & most remote locations, and $202,000 / yr to $253,000 / yr in San Francisco, Seattle & New York. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including candidate experience and expertise, and may vary from the amounts listed above.